EsPOSiTO — On the Earliest Latin Life of St. Bric/id of Kildare. -309 



Admout, Bibliotliek der Eenediktiuerabtei. 

 MS. No. 25. Membr. saec. xiii, fols. 116b-118. A volume of Yitae 

 Saiictoriun (cf. Analecta BoUaudiaua, 17, 1898, pp. 31, 4-4). Aduioiit is iu 

 Slyria. 



Auxerre, Brbliotheque Mimicipale. 

 MS. No. 27. Membr. saec. sii. From the ancient Cistercian abbey of 

 Poutiguy.' A. collection of Vitae Sanctorum.- The Vita S. Brigidae of 

 Uogitosns occupies fols. l-5b. 



Brussels, Bibliotheque Eoyale. 

 MS. II. 1181 (Phillipps, No. 12461). Membr. saec. xiim., fols. 81a-87b. 

 From the Benedictine abbey of Stabuhrm, now Stavelot, in Belgium. The 

 prologue is missing in tliis Jis.^ [See Addendum to this paper.] 

 Cambrai, Bibliotheque Communale, 

 MS. No. 865. Membr. saec. x/xi, fols. 115b-123. A volume of Vitae 

 Sanctorum.' It was formerly No. 358 in the Cathedral Library at Cambrai, 

 to which it was given by Pierre Preudhomme, a canon of Arras, who died 

 in 1628.^ As mentioned above, this is one of the mss. employed by the 

 Bollandists for their edition. 



Cambridge, Trinity College. 

 MS. No. 316. Membr. saec. xv, fols. 207b-211b. Historia de heata 

 Brigida, Sancta itaque Brigid.a, etc.* 



Douai, Bibliotheque Communale. 

 MS. No. 840. Membr. saec. xii, fols. 85 b-89 b. From the Benedictine abbey 

 of Marchiennes (dep. du Nord). The prologue and last few chapters are 

 missing.' 



Heiligenkreuz-Bei-Baden, Stiftsbibliothek. 

 MS. No. 11. Membr. saec. xiiex., fols. 93a-96b. A volume of Vitae 

 Sanctorum.^ The Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz is situated in Lower 

 Austria. 



' Dep. de I'yonne. Cf. Gottlieb, loc. cit., p. 136. 



- The MS. has been fully described by llolinier (Catalogue geneial iles ruanu.sLiiis des 

 bibliotheques publiques de Fiance, Depaitefnents, I. 6, 1SS7, p. 30). 



^ This MS. came into the Brussels Library in 1SS8 from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 

 cf. Catalogus Codicum Hagiographicorum Bibl. Eeg. Bruxellensis, Pars i, t. 2, 1SS9, p. o'il, and 

 Van Den Gheyn, Catalogue des Jlauuscrits de la Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, t. v, 1905, 

 pp. 287-292. 



1 Cf. Molinier, Catal. geu. des JISS. des Bibl. Publ. de France, Dep., t. 17, 1891, p. 352. 



' Cf. ilolinier, loc. cit., p. vi. 



*Cf. James, Catalogue of JISS. in the Library ot Trinity College, Cambridge, i, 1900, p. 430. 



' Cf. Analecia Bollandiana, 20, 1901, p. 395. 



*Cl'. Analecta BoUaudiana, 17, 1898, pp. 27, 11; Krusch, ilon. Germ. Hist., Script. Eer. 

 ileroviug., t. iv, 1902, p. 431. 



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